LEADER 04516oam 22006734a 450 001 9910213853003321 005 20210915043943.0 010 $a0-8248-7372-6 010 $a0-8248-6716-5 010 $a0-8248-6714-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824867164 035 $a(CKB)3710000001084756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669038 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718833 035 $a(OCoLC)990722644 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse61304 035 $a(DE-B1597)483722 035 $a(OCoLC)974803957 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824867164 035 $a(ScCtBLL)df82ebc5-7a57-42d1-b9da-4a8eda7aaac6 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001084756 100 $a20160928d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTransnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement$fSimon Avenell 210 1$aHonolulu :$cUniversity of Hawai?i Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (338 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-8248-7438-2 311 $a0-8248-6713-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-304) and index. 327 $aJapanese industrial pollution and environmental injustice -- The therapy of translocal community -- The human limits to growth : Japanese activists at UNCHE -- Pollution export and victimhood -- Pacific solidarity and atomic aggression -- Globality through local eyes. 330 $aWhat motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, it shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe, as well as landmark United Nations conferences in 1972 and 1992. Japan's experiences with diseases caused by industrial pollution produced a potent "environmental injustice paradigm" that fueled domestic protest and became the motivation for Japanese groups' activism abroad. From the late 1960s onward Japanese activists organized transnational movements addressing mercury contamination in Europe and North America, industrial pollution throughout East Asia, radioactive waste disposal in the Pacific, and global climate change. In all cases, they advocated strongly for the rights of pollution victims and people living in marginalized communities and nations-a position that often put them at odds with those advocating for the global environment over local or national rights. Transnational involvement profoundly challenged Japanese groups' understanding of and approach to activism. Numerous case studies demonstrate how border-crossing efforts undermined deeply engrained notions of victimhood in the domestic movement and nurtured a more self-reflexive and multidimensional approach to environmental problems and social activism.Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement will appeal to scholars and students interested in the development of civil society, social movements, and environmentalism in contemporary Japan; grassroots inter-Asian connections in the postwar period; and the ways Asian countries and their citizens have shaped and been influenced by global issues like environmentalism. 606 $aEnvironmental protection$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aGreen movement$zJapan$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aJapan. 610 $aenvironmental injustice. 610 $aenvironmentalism. 610 $ahuman rights. 610 $aindustrial pollution. 610 $asocial activism. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 615 0$aGreen movement$xHistory. 676 $a363.700952 676 $a363.700952 700 $aAvenell$b Simon Andrew$01025247 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910213853003321 996 $aTransnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement$92437518 997 $aUNINA